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Violence in the Cinema, Part 1

  • 19711971
  • 20m
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7.5/10
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ShortComedy
What at first seems like a serious psychological assessment of violence in the cinema by a professor or lecturer, turns into a bloody orgy of human destructiveness.What at first seems like a serious psychological assessment of violence in the cinema by a professor or lecturer, turns into a bloody orgy of human destructiveness.What at first seems like a serious psychological assessment of violence in the cinema by a professor or lecturer, turns into a bloody orgy of human destructiveness.
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
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  • Director
    • George Miller
  • Writer
    • George Miller
  • Stars
    • Arthur Dignam
    • Victoria Anoux
    • Mallory Pettit
  • Director
    • George Miller
  • Writer
    • George Miller
  • Stars
    • Arthur Dignam
    • Victoria Anoux
    • Mallory Pettit
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    • 1User review
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    Arthur Dignam
    Arthur Dignam
    • Dr. Fyne
    Victoria Anoux
    • Woman
    Mallory Pettit
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    Karl Avis
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    Stewart McQueen
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    • Director
      • George Miller
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      • George Miller
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      The academic's monologue was actually taken verbatim from a speech made publicly by Australian writer Phillip Adams only a few months earlier. Later, Adams wrote a harsh review of George Miller's Mad Max (1979), saying by way of full disclosure, "Just as Dr Miller mutilated me, I feel duty bound to return the favour".
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      Referenced in A Word with Bob Ellis (2008)

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    8/10
    A gory, entertaining spoof
    In the early seventies, when I saw this film, the depiction of violence on the screen was a hot media topic. Therefore the opening of this short feature took most of us in; an academic type, filmed against the background of his study, addresses the screen on the title subject. Just as we have settled down to the tedious tempo, - BANG! The study door bursts open, and a shotgun toting intruder blasts part of the speaker's head away, hurling him backwards out of his chair. It would spoil the fun if I described the rest of the increasingly blood-soaked proceedings; suffice it to say that the joke works wonderfully.
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    • Sep 26, 1998

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    • Country of origin
      • Australia
    • Language
      • English
    • Production companies
      • Acta Scienta
      • Warlok Films
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      20 minutes
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      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono

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